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Hadingham, Evan The Fighting Triplanes.
New York MacMillan Company 1969 First American Edition Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket
239 pages, well illustrated, diagrams, cloth, DJ, very good. 8.5 by 11 inches. 1st American edition. From the DJ: Early in 1917 a new aircraft with an unusual configuration appeared in the skies over the Western Front. Its effect on aircraft design and air power was dramatic. Although three-winged aircraft had played a prominent role in the pioneer days of flying, no one had ever applied such a design to war airplanes until the advent of the remarkable Sopwith triplane developed by the British. They proved to be of remarkable fighting ability, outdistancing and outmaneuvering the biplanes. "We used to fly thirty or forty miles behind the German lines," wrote one Sopwith pilot, "and wait with the early morning sun behind us over the enemy aerodromes. As the German aircraft rose from the airfield, we picked them off. If they came for us, we simply went up into a climbing turn and there was nothing they could do about it." The Germans answered with the Fokker triplane, which found still greater fame at the hands of the great aces such as Voss and Von Richthofen. Suddenly aircraft designers everywhere tried to emulate the successes of the Fokker and the Sopwith, until more than ninety types had been built or projected before the war ended. In The Fighting Triplanes, Evan Hadingham, a young student of air history, recounts the colorful story of triplane development, the daring men who flew them, and their brief but glorious period of deployment during the 1914-i8 war. The author includes a comprehensive study, with specifications and full details of design and operation, of each triplane known to have been built in the years 1914-18. As Air Vice-Marshal Collishaw, who flew the Sopwith in World War I, remarks in his Foreword "We shall never again see triplane aircraft in production, and rarely do we see them in museums. Nevertheless [their] importance in the history of aviation should not be neglected. I think this book serves a useful purpose in showing this significance." .
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